Astronomers discover 'Quipu,' the single largest structure in the known universe

Science via MSN ^ | 22 February 2025 | Stephanie Pappas

[Diana in Wisconsin]

That’s QUITE the ‘cluster’ ya got there, Mister! ;)

[dfwgator]

Are we talking Chris Christie big?

[nwrep]

But not to scale though, since MW is only 100,000 light years across and the whole universe is about 15B light years across.

[P.O.E.]

Maybe it’s just happy to see Mae West.

[Doctor Congo]

To make distances like this picturable in my head I think of multiples of our galaxy’s diameter. If my math is correct this 1.3B lyrs is 13,000 milkyways away.

(our galaxy is 100,000 lyrs wide, 1000 lyrs thick, and the central bulge is 10,000 lyrs thick)

[Doctor Congo]

oops. The center of this thing is 425M lyrs away, so if I didn’t screw up the math again the center is 4250 milkyways from us.

That doesn’t sound very far away.

[bgill]

Until they find one bigger.

[PLMerite]

“Wow! That’s a monster!”

Yeah, try not to piss it off.

[minnesota_bound]

This shows we are circling a drain.